Star Wars: The Old Republic Random Question/Discussion thread - F2P

[Katlan]

You can't take in-game SS's. All the stuff I previously posted was me doing a screen capture and putting it into paint lol. But they do IP check now. If I logged in, and then my friend kicked me or logged in shortly after... the account would be banned. That's why, when I was playing a lot, we would log in at least 1day+ from each other.

I liked the game, just since its so extremely story focused.. I don't want to sit through the same story / conversations twice. But I'll def play to like lv 20 if the graphics look that good. That looks great and just matched TERA's graphics if not surpassed it.

I never knocked the graphics for that reason. Can't tell how well a game will look until the features are unlocked. And even then it depends on how well optimized it is. I mean XIV looks great, but in order to look that good they had to cut out a lot of stuff.. granted its their engine limitations, but XIV also runs like crap. Not drawing comparisons, just pointing out how important optimization is

[Zerocool]

Dev quote:

StephenReid General Discussion -> Sorry... I dont want Segway for a speederbike.
Hey all. Apologies for being a bit late to the party on this.

Here's the good news: the development team has been paying close attention to your feedback on vehicles. So thank you for those who said things that didn't involve rude words.

Here's the better news: we have more things to say about vehicles. Can't elaborate yet, but there's more to come.

Here's the best news: we'll start saying more about vehicles before too long. (No, not "This Friday" which seems to be the usual expectation. )

Stay tuned.

[Dantrag]

sounded kinda repetitive lol. but yeah, those speeders seemed silly... and slow ;(

[vrumpt]

come to think of it i've never played an MMO with an environment like Corellia and Coruscant, where its just a huge city environment. I'm actually really excited now to see how those areas turn out.

[Zerocool]

sounded kinda repetitive lol. but yeah, those speeders seemed silly... and slow ;(

Yeah. Well they said that originally they had full size speeder bikes but they were too big in towns or something. Hopefully they've changed their minds though and put the full ones back.

[Katlan]

come to think of it i've never played an MMO with an environment like Corellia and Coruscant, where its just a huge city environment. I'm actually really excited now to see how those areas turn out.

tbh, I was disappointed when I realized Coruscant was a full on city / leveling area. The city is huge, yes, but unless they allow you to fly in the open area (which i highly doubt because the draw distance / background isn't rendered in 3d and doesn't look like your meant to go there even if you could), you just take a flight path to different areas of the leveling areas and anybody who levels through the content has no reason to go back to all those other areas and it just leaves the main city.

I mean the city is nice and huge, but a city leveling area gets repetitive in the scenery.

[Lucavi]

Yeah. Well they said that originally they had full size speeder bikes but they were too big in towns or something. Hopefully they've changed their minds though and put the full ones back.

If they put anything even halfway close to the Mechanohog in WoW, this is a day 1 purchase for me. I fucking loved that bike, and the passenger car was the best idea ever.

You hear that, Bioware? You want my money? Its green and smells delicious! Give me an awesome mount!

[Boyiee]

Just noticed a beta invite in my email this week. Debating DLing for myself or giving it to a friend who is FAR more interested in it than me. Tough decision :/

[jmc]

Just noticed a beta invite in my email this week. Debating DLing for myself or giving it to a friend who is FAR more interested in it than me. Tough decision :/

Both terrible ideas.

Should just give it to me

[Katlan]

Those SS's must be from a dev build. updated the game tonight and no new options

[vrumpt]

maybe they just did a graphical pass to those areas. I'm thinking thats why some places look better than others. Sliders will come eventually, but for now they'll probly just keep updating graphics and effects around the world.

[Katlan]

Nope. A lot of those were from Coruscant (where I was logged out from) and the main city looks the exact same. It was from a dev build since those were actual SS's that hid the UI (can't do that in-game atm).

One of the main things they want user feedback from, in-game, is about the lag. I highly doubt they are gonna update the graphics before they resolve the lag issue since enhanced graphics will only slow down the engine/servers

[vrumpt]

Theres a possibility we'll get a release date at comic-con in 2 weeks. Stephen Reid has been teasing like a giddy school girl about "stuff" and hes not outright denying the chance of a release date here unlike previous events. Hes got stuff he wants to tell us. But can't. For two weeks.

[Ezek]

So, Betacake's latest Q&A had a pretty major storyline spoiler (no seriously, if you care about spoilers don't expand)

Spoiler: show

You fight Revan/Reborn Revan in a Level 30ish Empire Flashpoint and kill him.

[vrumpt]

As part of the Game Testing program we're doing various events. One event, designed to test Guild functionality, offered an incentive for getting involved - the possibility of an extra invite granted as a 'plus one'. This is a one-off event.

The number of invites issued through this incentive will be small, and those who receive the ability to invite others will be randomly selected. In comparison to the total number of people in Game Testing, it will be a tiny fraction.

There is no general 'invite a friend' program as part of Game Testing, and nothing is currently planned along those lines. Invites are continuing to be sent randomly to those who have opted in to test.

As a reminder, anyone who is part of the Game Testing program is bound by the terms of the Game Testing Agreement. As such, you are allowed to tell the world that you are in testing, and that's all.

We'll be closing this thread to stop further speculation and will close further threads on the same topic without notice.

those of you in the beta currently, watch your emails. pretty please.


also, hands on with a level 47 from the beta

http://betacake.blogspot.com/2011/07...ster.html#more

[vrumpt]

Things are happening. There will be a panel next week at SDCC for SW:TOR on the 21st, where Bioware will be making a number of announcements.

Also, many leaks have popped up, bunch of screenshots on betacake and some beta videos on AlterSwtor.

http://www.alterswtor.com/
http://betacake.blogspot.com/

Also theres this



Looking forward to seeing everything next week.

[Katlan]

I wanted to go to the SDCC panel, but since lines are so long you have to pick and choose what to go to and the TOR panel is at the same time as Game of Thrones. Can't miss GoT panel!

I'm assuming the new build will also have the graphics enhancements we saw in the earlier SS's

edit: fuck, the new client will require a new re-dl of the entire client QQ

[Havocxx]

^
Another 24-30hr DL and install, joy.

You can force some graphics enhancements if you use a profile for SWTOR in Catalyst.

[vrumpt]

Yeah i'm expecting many visual improvements, especially if they are moving from alpha 2 to beta as rumors have stated. May even see some UI changes, and hopefully they'll fix getting your advanced quest with this build so its not so off the cuff of a decision.

[vrumpt]

So uh, no idea who is all going to SDCC other than Katlan. Heres where Bioware will be when they are there

stole schedule from here

BIOWARE BASE = Hilton Gaslamp Quarter Hotel

SCHEDULE:

WEDNESDAY JULY 20TH

@CONVENTION:
- 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Comic-Con Preview Night

THURSDAY JULY 21ST

@CONVENTION:
- 9:30 AM - 7:00 PM Hands-On inside Star Wars Pavilion Booth #2913 (starter planets)
- 3:30 PM - n/a Star Wars: The Old Republic Panel to be held in room #6BCF. (Q&A, giveaways, gameplay footage, announcements)

@BIOWARE BASE:
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hands-On at the Hilton Gaslamp Hotel aka BioWare Base
- 4:30 PM - n/a The Old Republic signing session
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Old Republic Panel and Q&A
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Special Flashpoint Event (invite only, arrive 15 min early to your session)
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Special Flashpoint Event (invite only, arrive 15 min early to your session)

FRIDAY JULY 22ND

@CONVENTION:
- 9:30 AM - 7:00 PM Hands-On inside Star Wars Pavilion Booth #2913 (starter planets)

@BIOWARE BASE:
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hands-On at the Hilton Gaslamp aka BioWare Base (Q&A, giveaways)
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM The Old Republic Panel, Q&A, and signing session
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Special Flashpoint Event (invite only, arrive 15 min early to your session)
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Special Flashpoint Event (invite only, arrive 15 min early to your session)

SATURDAY JULY 23RD

@CONVENTION:
-9:30 AM - 7:00 PM Hands-On inside Star Wars Pavilion Booth #2913 (starter planets)

@BIOWARE BASE:
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hands-On at the Hilton Gaslamp aka BioWare Base (Q&A, giveaways)
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM The Old Republic signing session
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Old Republic Panel and Q&A
- 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM Comic Con Meet and Greet (socialize with fellow fans and developers alike)
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Special Flashpoint Event (invite only, arrive 15 min early to your session)
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Special Flashpoint Event (invite only, arrive 15 min early to your session)

SUNDAY JULY 24

@CONVENTION:
- 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM Hands-On inside Star Wars Pavilion Booth #2913 (starter planets)

@BIOWARE BASE:
- 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM Hands-On at the Hilton Gaslamp aka BioWare Base (Q&A, giveaways)
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM The Old Republic Panel and Q&A